Our Last Chance for Freedom, Their Last Chance for Global
Dominion
We each can decide the fate of humanity every single day.
by Tony Cartalucci

"And our small planet, at this moment, here we face a critical
branch-point in the history. What we do with our world, right
now, will propagate down through the centuries and powerfully
affect the destiny of our descendants. It is well within our
power to destroy our civilization, and perhaps our species as
well. If we capitulate to superstition, or greed, or stupidty we
can plunge our world into a darkness deeper than time between
the collapse of classical civilization and the Italian
Renaissaince. But, we are also capable of using our compassion
and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an
abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this
planet. To enhance enormously our understanding of the Universe,
and to carry us to the stars." -Carl Sagan, astronomer

Indeed, we teeter on a precipice upon which technology and human
innovation will either free us from chains that have
collectively bound us since the beginning of civilization, or
enslave us within a global scientific dictatorship that will
crush us so completely we will cease to even be human. They, the
global elite know this, while the average person snickers and
giggles at what is perhaps the greatest struggle with the most
at stake ever in human history. As the global elite mobilize the
summation of their power and wealth on a daily basis, many of us
do nothing at all to assert ourselves or our claim to our own
destiny. Worse yet, many of us witlessly pay into a system that
seeks to supplant individual human sovereignty and achieve the
ultimate culmination of megalomaniacal dominion over the human
race.

A fear stalks the global elite however - the fear of inevitable
technological breakthroughs slipping from their monopolistic
grip and into the hands of the people. Technology like file
sharing, blogging, open source software, and cheaper hardware
have allowed the masses to challenge and in some ways dismantle
the structure of domination the global elite are attempting to
build over free humanity. Rules and regulations, bills like SOPA
and PIPA, and other legal tactics attempt to stem the tide or
indeed reverse it. In other ways, this "disruptive technology"
is below the radar of most in both politics and throughout the
public - but a potential battlefield the global elite are
already preparing to fight upon.

One example, and perhaps the most profound, is that of advanced
computer controlled manufacturing that is starting to appear on
desktops around the world. An article on the globalist Lowy
Institute's "Interpreter" notes the emergence of this technology
in an article titled, "The replicator: Life imitates Star Trek,"
which concludes, "I don't think we yet have any idea of the
disruptive capacity of such technology, for good and ill."

The implications are that the average person will be able to
design and create their own goods and no longer depend on the
crass consumerism that has characterized, aligned, and
controlled society for the last several decades. Instead of
having the TV tell people what they want, people could decide
for themselves. And while we could collaborate globally, we
would be able to decide locally how best to employ our time,
energy, and resources to solve local problems. The blending of
designers, manufacturers, and end-users would make collaboration
and the erasing of the concept of "intellectual property" an
inevitability. It would deconstruct walls standing in the way of
progress like never before - as well as diminish both corporate
profits and the unwarranted power these profits have granted
corporations for generations.

And while computer-controlled manufacturing entering into the
hands of the masses would bring a quantum leap to human
progress, reducing material scarcity as the technology improved,
none of this is being talked about in political or public
circles beyond a handful of universities and enthusiasts who
genuinely want what's best for humanity. In attempts to garner
government support, many organizations are told specific rules
exist that prevent governments or corporations from assisting
projects that turn consumers into producers and thus opening the
door to the personal manufacturing revolution.

It is a good bet that the upper echelons of the global elite are
well aware of the impending personal manufacturing revolution -
and would rather keep it silent. Concepts and predictions of
"universal constructors" have been around since the 1940's. Even
the most obedient and servile amongst the globalists' helping
hands would see the value and allure of such a paradigm shift
finally becoming reality and might be tempted to stray from
servitude if such ideas became more mainstream. Keeping this
quiet buys the elite time to put their global system in place,
increase interdependency between people and nations as well as
increasing dependency on their contrived international
institutions - when technology already exists that make such
global empires both unnecessary and entirely unpalatable.

Globalists through deindustrialization have made it more
difficult to continue making advances in manufacturing
technology that would normally trickle down to hobbyists and the
general public. Perpetuating and celebrating ignorance and
ineptitude amongst a population that now values pop stars and
athletes more than those seeking to advance the frontiers of
humanity has also served the global elite well in staving off
this paradigm shift.

The wisdom of Carl Sagan yielded the observation that we live in
a society constructed on science and technology, but where the
public has little or no knowledge at all regarding either. So
then who, Sagan asked, is determining the fate of humanity? The
answer is simple, the corporate-oligarchies that hold a monopoly
on science, technology, and engineering and who seek through
rules and regulations to defend, consolidate, and expand further
that monopoly. In many ways we already live under a scientific
dictatorship.

We are faced with a series of decisions. Do we allow the petty,
short-sighted self-serving corporate oligarchies to continue
dominating society by our paying into their system on a daily
basis? Will we allow corporate-funded think-tanks like the
Brookings Institution and the Council on Foreign Relations to
continue determining national policy for us, but on behalf of
their corporate sponsors? Will we continue hoping for political
leaders and political solutions to come and improve our lives
for us like needy children? Or are we prepared to grow up as a
civilization and take on these responsibilities for ourselves?
Are we prepared to starve into extinction the antiquated elitist
parasites that have misled us from one dark age to another, one
war to the next, from one economic depression to even worse, and
who have brought us to the edge of perhaps the most frightening
abyss in human history?

Personal manufacturing is here, a paradigm shift of immense
proportions stands before us. People around the world are
already utilizing it to solve real world problems, as
demonstrated by MIT's FabLab - and improves lives where politics
have categorically failed. Society will continue to march
forward with an expanding scientific and technological
infrastructure. It is up to us and our will to get involved that
will determine whether that infrastructure serves the elite or
the people.

Above all others, Americans should be scientifically and
technologically literate. The "bread and circus" of
corporate-funded spectacles like the NFL, American Idol, and all
the other pointless diversions that have absorbed our time and
energy and even our own will to determine our destiny are like
the ancient Sirens of Greek mythology guiding us into the rocks
of our own destruction. It is time for us to determine whether
we will command the direction of our own destiny, or if the cage
the global elite have constructed around us incrementally is
sufficiently comfortable enough to resign the destiny of
humanity for.

For those interested in personal manufacturing, the above
Interpreter article features the "Makerbot" designed and
constructed by a collaborative workspace in New York City called
"Resistor." America used to have a thriving DIY industry, with
an abundance of clubs, organizations, contests, and
publications. Today there is a resurgence - only this time
augmented with technology like personal manufacturing that has
immense implications that go beyond a constructive pastime.

It would be a good idea to connect with these people and add our
talent, energy, and free time to something more constructive
than vegetating on the couch behind the glow of the Fortune 500
TV programming that has lulled a great nation to sleep. The
future is as bright as we make it - not through merely voting
and protesting, but through the use of our two hands and to whom
we choose to pay our money, time, and attention to. The fate of
humanity is determined each and every day by how we choose to
spend these personal commodities. Technology has reached a point
of no return granting whoever wields it, control of human
destiny well into the foreseeable future. Let's make sure it is
we the people that are wielding it.